Donald DeMarco: “Dialogue” is a word that brings to mind fairness and respect for both sides of the debate. For the most part, however, it is a concerted attempt on the part of one side to achieve a triumphant monologue. In other words, certain people who propose dialogue use the word as camouflage to conceal their own intentions. I once taught a [...]
Tanis Cortens: Two celebrities are facing backlash over their questionable pro-abortion views. British singer Lily Allen said jokingly on the July 1 episode of her podcast Miss Me? that she “can’t remember exactly how many” abortions she has had. “I have an IUD now,” she told co-host Miquita Oliver. “I think I’m on my third or fourth and I just remember before [...]
Tanis Cortens: After 35 years in operation, the Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic, a downtown Vancouver abortuary, closed its doors on June 30. The facility’s board cited changes to the provincial health care system as the cause. Vancouver formerly had four abortion mills: one in the B.C. Women’s Hospital, and three funded by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). VCH’s decision to shift to a new [...]
Tanis Cortens: The two buildings had shared a wall since the Centre’s inception in early 2023, causing some abortion-minded women to walk into the Centre by mistake and thus discover resources for themselves and their babies. In an interview with The Interim, co-founder and president Frank D’Angelo described the Centre as “the last chance to offer positive options.” A mother in distress [...]
Josie Luetke: It is curious that doctors are forsaking the Hippocratic Oath—neither to administer a poison, nor suggest such a course—and patients are being euthanized by the state at record rates at precisely the time in history when pain management is at its best. People used to suffer horrific deaths—from plagues, wounds, starvation, and whatnot. I’m not pretending people don’t die horrific [...]
Few incidents offer a better snapshot of modern discourse than the recent exchanges surrounding ordo amoris. That Latin phrase can be translated as “the order of love,” a concept which has had currency in Christian theology since it was formulated in late antiquity by St. Augustine, and was further refined, almost a millennium later, by St. Thomas Aquinas. In the 20th century, [...]
Samara Douma: Ultrasound technology has advanced beyond the classic black-and-white 2D (two-dimensional) imaging to offer clearer and higher-quality images. Three-dimensional imaging, as the name suggests, displays a 3D image of the child, making their facial features distinguishable beyond an outline. A 4D ultrasound captures multiple 3D images and combines them to create a video of the child’s movement, possibly capturing a smile [...]
Pete Baklinski Special to The Interim: Auschwitz concentration camp. A memorial to the victims who were killed here. It has long haunted me how Henry Morgentaler, sometimes referred to as Canada’s “father of abortion,” survived Nazi concentration camps only to go on to perpetrate similar horrors against the smallest and most vulnerable members of the human family: preborn children. How [...]
Interim Staff: John McCash, a co-founder of Students for Life, died at the age of 53 on May 18 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. McCash’s official death notice stated, “John was fearless and unapologetic in his drive to reach unsaved souls for the Kingdom of God, and was often found evangelizing on the streets of Toronto carrying his cross.” It [...]
Paul Tuns: A month short of her 85th birthday, Kathleen Toth passed away on May 23 following hip surgery at Surrey Memorial Hospital in B.C. At the time hailing from Edmonton, Toth was one of 18 pro-lifers who took part in the initial conference in Winnipeg in May 1978 at which Campaign Life was founded, becoming the organization’s first president. Campaign Life [...]
Paul Tuns: Dr. Carmelo (Carm) Scime, died on June 17 at St. Joseph’s Health Care in Hamilton at the age of 93 following a brief illness. Scime – pronounced SHEE-may -- was born in 1932, the seventh of Giuseppe and Marianna Scime’s nine children. He was married to Lynne Scime for 66 years and they were partners in pro-life activism in Hamilton [...]
Paul Tuns: The Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA) Canada is challenging the constitutionality of a London, Ont., bylaw that is designed to restrict pro-life speech, while the Ontario Court of Appeal has agreed to hear the Christian Heritage Party’s challenge to the city of Hamilton’s refusal to accept a bus advertisement that questioned transgender ideology. The Ontario Court of Appeal has [...]
Samara Douma: Although the Bible never explicitly says that abortion is wrong, it does have a lot to say about how God values human life from conception. Many verses speak about how God formed us with a purpose from before we were born. In Psalm 139, David praises God for His omniscience and omnipresence not only in his life after birth but [...]
Paul Tuns: On June 17, the British House of Commons voted 379-136 for an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would end prosecutions of women who obtain abortions. In 1967, the Abortion Act permitted abortion up to 28 weeks if approved by two doctors under supposedly limited circumstances such as to protect the health of the mother. The law was [...]
Samara Douma: In March, Pregnancy Help News reported the first successful Abortion Pill Reversal story in India. Her firstborn now a toddler, Priya (name changed at her request) was ready to direct more of her focus back toward her career when she found out she was pregnant. Priya decided to have a chemical abortion. After taking the first of two drugs involved [...]